For Students
What is a Thesis Defense?
The AI and Learning Sciences groups at Yale and Northwestern take the terms "thesis" and "defense" pretty seriously. I wrote What is a Thesis Defense? many years ago for the AI grad students at Yale. I've updated it a bit to relate it to the Learning Sciences. It's a personal statement.
Qual Programming Questions
Every year for more years than I plan to reveal, I've written a programming question for our 2nd year PhD qualifying exam. I used to require answers in Lisp, but in the past few years, anything suitable is allowed.
- 2008 Programming Question and one possible answer
- 2007 Programming Question and one possible answer
- 2006 Programming Question and one possible answer
- 2005 Programming Question and one possible answer
- 2004 Programming Question and one possible answer
- 2003 Programming Question and one possible answer
- 2002 Programming Question (PDF) and data files for testing: tfidf.txt with the word counts, and hierarchy.txt with the list of specialized terms.
- 1998 Programming Question
- 1997 Programming Question
- 1996 Programming Question
- 1994 Programming Question -- this includes links to a discussion of the problem and one possible solution
